One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.